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EDITOR-IN-CHIEF: Silje Evjenth Bentsen

EDITORIAL GROUP: Simon Armitage Carin Andersson Dahl Janne-Beate Buanes Duke Turid Hillestad Nel

DESIGN & LAYOUT: Renate Paulsen

PHOTOS: Andrea Bender: p. 30 Silje Evjenth Bentsen: p. 12, 27, 28, 30, 37, 56 Francesco d’Errico: p. 24, 30, 56 Sigrid Caroline Evjenth Esterhuizen: p. 56 Craig Foster: p. 33 Magnus Haaland: Cover, p. 9, 12, 32, 34, 56 Christopher Henshilwood: p. 27, 56 Kenneth Hugdahl: p. 18, 19 Torill Christine Lindstrøm: p. 56 Jenny Maccali: p. 16, 17 Turid Hillestad Nel: p. 26 Karen van Niekerk: p. 4, 9, 10, 11, 30, 40, 56 Pixabay.com: p. 48 Karl Purcell: p. 56 Solange Rigaud: p. 21 SapienCE, UiB: p. 6 Eivind Senneset: p. 23 Margit Simon: p. 9, 15 Ole F. Unhammer: p. 12, 34, 35, 38 Jean-Paul Vanderlinden: p. 14, 15 Lyn Wadley: p. 29 ILLUSTRATIONS FROM PAPERS: Page 21: Illustrations from Henshilwood et al. 2018: An abstract drawing from the 73,000-year-old levels at Blombos Cave, South Africa. Nature 562:115-118. Page 22: Illustrations from d’Errico et al. 2018: From number sense to number symbols. An archaeological perspective. Philosophical Transactions of The Royal Society B 373: 20160518 Page 29: Illustrations from Wadley et al. 2020: Cooked starchy rhizomes in Africa 170 thousand years ago. Science 367: 87-91

COULD YOU GUESS THE HOME OFFICES? Page 30: Top: Karen van Niekerk (Blombos). Middle: Francesco d’Errico (Bourdeaux). Base: Andrea Bender (Bergen).

Back cover (Page 56): Top row: Left: Elizabeth Velliky (Frafjord). Middle: Karen van Niekerk (Bergen). Right: Stein Erik Lauritzen (Bergen): Middle row: Left: Francesco d’Errico (Bourdeaux). Middle: Silje Evjenth Bentsen (Bergen). Right: Christopher Henshilwood (Bergen). Base row: Left: Torill Lindstrøm (Bergen). Middle: Karl Purcell (Canada). Right: Silje Evjenth Bentsen (Bergen).

Return Address: Centre for Early Sapiens Behaviour Dept. of Archaeology, History, Cultural Studies and Religon, University of Bergen, Post Box 7805 N-5020 Bergen Norway